[TheForge] TheForge Digest, Vol 61, Issue 44

[matt fitch]

check on youtube they have a bunch of older videos with blacksmiths making
anchors and chains

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>   4. Re: Old video (Chuck Robinson)
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> Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 20:55:37 -0600
> From: "Chuck Robinson" <robi5515 at bellsouth.net>
> Subject: [TheForge] Old video
> To: "Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
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> Does any one on the list still have the link to the old video showing
> blacksmiths using "Monday hammers" with the 3 handles doing  very large
> forge welds?
> Chuck
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> Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 04:00:30 -0400
> From: mspencer at tallships.ca (Mike Spencer)
> Subject: [TheForge]  Re: Old video
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> > ...blacksmiths using "Monday hammers" with the 3 handles doing very
> > large forge welds?
>
> Okay, Chuck, I'll bite.  What's a "Monday hammer"?  With 3 or any
> number of handles?
>
> > Does any one on the list still have the link to the old video
> > showing...
>
> Or even a still image?  Say what?
>
> - Mike
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> Michael Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada       .~.
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> mspencer at tallships.ca                                     /( )\
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> Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:30:06 -0800
> From: Ben Barrett <ben at nw-arts.com>
> Subject: Re: [TheForge] Old video
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> I don't have the video, but out of curiosity I found this, on the
> reader comments of a page that otherwise defined it as a heavy hammer:
>
> > Reader comments:
> >
> > A 'monday hammer' was a three handled hammer that was used in the chain
> and anchor trade in the Black Country.  Its head weighed one cwt and 5 men
> were required to handle it.  The Vicar of Dudley came to Noah Hingley's of
> Netherton and was pleased when the leader of the gang told him that "me and
> me mates lift it up but the Lord sends it down".
> > Its was called a Monday hammer because the men told him that "nobody
> likes mondays either"
> > "Strike while the iron's hot" use as heavy blow as possible, and this was
> possible with the Monday hammer.
> > by Ron Moss 19 Jun 07, 0919 GMT
>
> source: http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/dictionary/monday_hammer/
> (at the bottom)
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> On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 12:00 AM, Mike Spencer <mspencer at tallships.ca>
> wrote:
> >
> >> ...blacksmiths using "Monday hammers" with the 3 handles doing very
> >> large forge welds?
> >
> > Okay, Chuck, I'll bite.  What's a "Monday hammer"?  With 3 or any
> > number of handles?
> >
> >> Does any one on the list still have the link to the old video
> >> showing...
> >
> > Or even a still image?  Say what?
> >
> > - Mike
> >
> > --
> > Michael Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada       .~.
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> > mspencer at tallships.ca                                     /( )\
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> Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 07:45:24 -0600
> From: "Chuck Robinson" <robi5515 at bellsouth.net>
> Subject: Re: [TheForge] Old video
> To: <mspencer at tallships.ca>,    "Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA"
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> Hey Mike,
> Ben is exactly right about the hammer. The video I remember seeing a few
> years ago had a big team of smiths beating the poo out of some really large
> iron. There were at least 2 Monday hammers going at it and a couple of 2
> handled hammers, plus several single hammers, all at the same time. It was
> like a double time  Russian ballet.
>  One caption said the Monday Hammers could weigh up to 160 lbs..
> I'm working on hot linking some old videos to Our new web site for the GCBA
> www.gulfcoastblacksmith.com
>
> Chuck
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Spencer" <mspencer at tallships.ca>
> To: <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 2:00 AM
> Subject: [TheForge] Re: Old video
>
>
> >
> >> ...blacksmiths using "Monday hammers" with the 3 handles doing very
> >> large forge welds?
> >
> > Okay, Chuck, I'll bite.  What's a "Monday hammer"?  With 3 or any
> > number of handles?
> >
> >> Does any one on the list still have the link to the old video
> >> showing...
> >
> > Or even a still image?  Say what?
> >
> > - Mike
> >
> > --
> > Michael Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada       .~.
> >                                                           /V\
> > mspencer at tallships.ca                                     /( )\
> > http://home.tallships.ca/mspencer/                        ^^-^^
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